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Another user is WePlayTV.com, a startup that will soon launch a service for building online communities around television programs. The Sun deal is "a good thing, it adds maybe some respectability to the MySQL brand, plus you know now that the company is always going to be there," said Silas Martinez, a systems engineer for WebPlayTV.

"Some people might be hesitant, but as long they see that MySQL remains its own entity within Sun, I don't think it will be a problem," he said.

WePlayTV picked MySQL for its fast performance and ability to scale at low cost, Martinez said. His company has a policy to use open-source software because of the lower cost and support from the developer community. He is using MySQL 5.0 and was at the show to evaluate MySQL Cluster.

Ron Rosen, founder of online affiliate marketing company MyStoreMaker.com, also cited the low cost of MySQL compared with top-tier databases like Oracle. He favors the acquisition because it will bring stability to MySQL and its product road map, he said.

"As long as Sun doesn't do anything crazy, everything should be OK," he said.



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